Word: yorkerism
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...only singing chore. And her acting, when not rushed, was very competent. For a chorus of "All About Love," Ellen McHugh showed perhaps the most talent for comedy in the cast, closely followed by Shiela Flaherty's board rendition of "When the Postman Rings the Bell With New Yorker...
...nation that enjoys humor, the U.S. gets mighty little in its fiction, and things are apt to get worse before they get better. That is enough to make book news of the latest volume by Robert Lewis Taylor, a profile writer for The New Yorker and, most recently, a biographer of W. C. Fields and Winston Churchill. The Bright Sands offers a good share of laughs, plus a steady run of chuckles and a warm feeling for the human race...
...complete sampling of his career and his work. Ranging in date from 1935 to 1953, its contents include pieces in each of the styles presented in previous homogeneous collections: parables, satires, and parodies (Quo Vadimus), essays of the more classic form (One Man's Meat), notes from the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" (Every Day Is Saturday and The Wild Flay), and songs and poems (The Fox of Pea-pack...
...original authentic voices of The New Yorker belongs to E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White. As an editor and frequent lead-off man in the "Talk of the Town" section, E. B. White has done much in the past 28 years to set the urbane, casual pitch which is its hallmark...
...Second Tree from the Corner, a sampling of his New Yorker pieces, is "a dog's breakfast," according to White-short stories, parodies, poems, essays, table talk-some of it funny, some of it scary, almost none of it dull...